Filmed thought :

Pippin, Robert B., 1948-

Filmed thought : cinema as reflective form / Robert B. Pippin. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020. - 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cinema as reflective form. Cinematic reflection ; Cinematic self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Moral variations. Devils and angels in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her ; Confounding morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Social pathologies. Cinematic tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: can "life" itself be "false"? ; Love and class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Irony and mutuality. Cinematic irony: the strange case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar ; Passive and active skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Agency and meaning. Vernacular metaphysics: on Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line ; Psychology degree zero? the representation of action in the films of the Dardenne Brothers.

9780226671956 (cloth) 9780226672007 (pbk)


Motion pictures--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

PN1993.5.U6 / P53 2020